OOD Contracts in the Thames Valley

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for OOD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OOD over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 148 168
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -42
Contract jobs citing OOD 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.034% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.037% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £399
25th Percentile £313 - £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £469
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £344 - £505
90th Percentile £348 - £513
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £456
% change year-on-year -16.67% +31.51% -0.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

OOD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,381 2,727 3,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.57% 92.10% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,893 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 62 86
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.05 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.57 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OOD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OOD in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for OOD in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OOD in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for OOD in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OOD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -8 2 £325 - 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 £350 - 1
OOD
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA